Lìdaìzhìxià 36:21

21 Zhè jiù yìngyàn Yēhéhuá jiè Yēlìmǐ kǒu suǒ shuō de huà , dì xiǎngshòu ānxī . yīnwei dì tǔ huāngliáng biàn shǒu ānxī , zhí mǎn le qī shí nián .

Lìdaìzhìxià 36:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 36:21

To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah
That is, the Jews were so long servants in Babylon, as in the preceding verse, to accomplish Jeremiah's prophecy of it, ( 2 Chronicles 25:12 ) ( 27:7 ) ( 29:10 )

until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths;
the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, which, according to the law of the land, was to rest from being tilled, ( Leviticus 25:4 ) , which law had been neglected by the Jews, and now, whether they would or not, the land should have rest for want of persons to till it:

for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore
and ten years;
as threatened in ( Leviticus 26:34 Leviticus 26:35 ) on which text Jarchi observes, that at the destruction of the first temple the law concerning the sabbath, or rest of the land had been neglected four hundred and thirty years, in which space were sixty nine sabbatical years; and, according to Maimonides ^F4, it was at the end of a sabbatic year that the city and temple were destroyed, and so just seventy years had been neglected, and the land was tilled in them as in other years, and now it had rest that exact number of years; but of this we cannot be certain, though it is probable.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Hilchot Shemitah Veyobel, c. 10. sect. 3.

Lìdaìzhìxià 36:21 In-Context

19 Jiālèdǐ rén fùnshāo shén de diàn , chāihuǐ Yēlùsǎlĕng de chéngqiáng , yòng huǒshào le chéng lǐ de gōngdiàn , huǐhuaì le chéng lǐ bǎoguì de qìmǐn .

20 Fán tuōlí dāo jiàn de , Jiālèdǐ wáng dōu lǔ dào Bābǐlún qù , zuò tā hé tā zǐsūn de pú bì , zhídào Bōsī guó xīngqǐ lái .

21 Zhè jiù yìngyàn Yēhéhuá jiè Yēlìmǐ kǒu suǒ shuō de huà , dì xiǎngshòu ānxī . yīnwei dì tǔ huāngliáng biàn shǒu ānxī , zhí mǎn le qī shí nián .

22 Bōsī wáng Gǔliè yuán nián , Yēhéhuá wéi yào yìngyàn jiè Yēlìmǐ kǒu suǒ shuō de huà , jiù jīdòng Bōsī wáng sāi lǔ shì de xīn , shǐ tā xià zhào tōng gào quán guó , shuō ,

23 Bōsī wáng Gǔliè rúcǐ shuō , Yēhéhuá tiān shàng de shén yǐ jiāng tiān xià wàn guó cìgĕi wǒ , yòu zhǔfu wǒ zaì Yóudà de Yēlùsǎlĕng wèi tā jiànzào diàn yǔ . nǐmen zhōngjiān fán zuò tā zǐmín de , kĕyǐ shàng qù , yuàn Yēhéhuá tāde shén yǔ tā tóng zaì .